Hebrew Bible Mountains - Mount Sinai, Mount of Olives, Moriah, Mount Ephraim, City of David, Biblical Mount Sinai, Mount Carmel, Mount Gerizim (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Mount Sinai, Mount of Olives, Moriah, Mount Ephraim, City of David, Biblical Mount Sinai, Mount Carmel, Mount Gerizim, Mount Tabor, Mount Ebal, Mount Hermon, Mount Horeb, Mount Nebo, Mountains of Ararat, Judean Mountains, Mount Gilboa, Mount Pisgah, Mount Hazor, Mount Seir, Mount Sodom, Mount of the Congregation, Goath, Mizar, Gareb, Bezetha, Mount Gaash. Excerpt: The Biblical Mount Sinai (Hebrew:, Har Sinai) is the mountain at which the Book of Exodus states that the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God. Even prior to this, the mountain was considered holy, as Moses had encountered the burning bush upon the same mountain (called "Horeb" in the first instance). In certain biblical passages these events are described as having transpired at Mount Horeb. According to the researchers of the documentary hypothesis, the name "Sinai" is only used in the Torah by the Jahwist and Priestly Source, whereas Horeb is only used by the Elohist and Deuteronomist. Sinai and Horeb are generally considered to refer to the same place, although there is a small body of opinion that the two names may refer to different locations. Early Old Testament text describes Mount Sinai in terms which some scholars believe may describe the mountain as a volcano, although the word is omitted. This theory is not shared by all scholars. After leaving Egypt and crossing the Red Sea, the Israelites arrived at the foot of the holy mountain and gathered there in anticipation of the words of God. The Promulgation of the Law at Mount Sinai, by the illustrators of the Figures de la Bible, 1728According to some biblical scholars, Horeb is thought to mean "glowing/heat," which seems to be a reference to the sun, while Sinai may have derived from the name of Sin, the Sumerian deity of the moon, and thus Sinai and Horeb would be the mountains of ...